Light bulbs- cfls&florecent vs incandescent bulbs-enviornmentaly sound?

Question

I'm not sure about using CFL lights in my home. We've placed them in several overhead lighting and lamps. I've since gone back and change the lamps to regular incandescent bulbs. Though I've read that more Mercury is released into the enviornment when making regular incandescent bulbs than what cfls cantain..it's the fact that if my children knocks over a lamp and the bulb breaks, we have to evacuate the room for 15 minutes, shut off home ventilation, use sticky tape and not a vacume to clean up the bulb/reminants and place in a sealed plastic bag and then properly dispose of it.

So if the amount of mercury is so small in these light bulbs to be concidered an danger to people...then why all the caution for clean up of broken cfls/florecent bulbs and concern of properly disposing of them?

It's nice to save a little money and be "enviormentally" conscious...I hear people replacing all they're bulbs with CFL's... why not using both CFL's and regular incandescent bulbs with a dimmer

Answer 1

Mercury is a known toxin, known to interfere with brain development in children.  Why on God's green Earth would anyone want to have mercury bulbs in a home where there are children, and why is the gvmt forcing us to endanger our kids?

This is the trouble with gvmt led action.  Politicians are hardly the brightest of the bunch and there the ones forcing us to act as they think best.